National Museum of Language Announces New Board of Trustees Member

We are pleased to introduce you to our newest Board of Trustees member, Leslie Grahn.

DSC_0123 - Version 2Leslie is the Coordinator of World Languages for the Howard County Public Schools in Maryland.  She has twenty-seven years of language teaching experience at the middle and high school levels.  She has been on the Board of Directors of the Maryland Foreign Language Association since 1997, serving as its President from 2002-2004 and 2010-2012.

Leslie served as a Teacher Consultant on the Pearson-Prentice Hall series, Realidades, has written curriculum and assessments at the district level, and wrote an article which was featured in the Language Educator magazine in February 2014.  She is a course instructor and frequent presenter at state, regional, and national conferences, specializing in best practices, specifically hands-on, interactive strategies, and facilitates workshops on the topics of student engagement, formative assessment, and differentiated instruction.